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AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market
EvilTwinSkippy writes "Last May Slashdot covered the story of Changing World Tech's opening of a plant that converts agricultural waste to oil. Fortune magazine has picked up the story, and followed up on their success. Apparently the turkey guts are not as profitable to recycle as hoped, the company paying $30-$40/ton for animal offal. They are producing diesel fuel at $80/barrel (compared to $50/barrel for petroleum derived diesel). However, the plant has been successful enough to spawn ventures in Europe and the U.S. A pilot plant in Philadelphia has successfully used the process to safely break down and extract oil from sewage, medical waste, electronics, even leftovers from petroleum refining. The solids are metal, pure carbon, and fertilizer. And aside from gas and oil, the only other thing the system produces otherwise is sterile water."
Does that mean it can't reproduce?
Well I have the perfect marketing slogan for this! We can call it STOOL FUEL, Straight from people's butts into your engines.
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How, exactly, does one oil a market?
No, never mind. I don't want to know.
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Wouldn't it be truly ironic if the medical waste was liposuction fat (think Fight Club)? Then, the clinical obesity afflicting one in three Americans would itself be powering the automobiles that are, in part, responsible for the obesity.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Changing World Tech's opening of a plant that converts agricultural waste to oil.
You mean like what you get when you stuff dead trees and foliage in mud, burry it deep underground under billions of tons of rocks, and wait a few million years?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
A)Do they deliver?
B)What's Darl McBride's address again?
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"NO MORE FECES FOR OIL!"
This has value even if it consumes energy in the process. The 'beauty' of diesel/gas/petrol is that the energy is portable; you can put it into a gas tank and consume it hundreds of miles away. While it might not make sense to take this diesel and put it in a power plant, it does make sense to pipe it to a gas station. Same goes for fuel cells.
Frankly, I'd love to see the Dakotas were turned into solar/wind farms with chicken crapping farms under them, piping the feces into contraptions that turned it into diesel, and see the USA tell the Saudis to screw themselves. (Fat Chance)
It's PEOPLE! Soylent Diesel is PEOPLE!!!!!
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Great SCOTT marty! I knew I should have patented this process. luckly they haven't figured out how to reproduce the flux capacitor. We have plenty of time........
the giant flaming shitheap IS Nebraska....
There, better.
"Yes, but this is not a turkey-specific process."
That's one phrase I never thought I'd ever see.
Yes, but this is not a turkey-specific process. Consider, e.g., biomass (waste or otherwise)...
OMG! Oilent Green is made out of people! People!
That and give Tony Soprano his 'cut' off the trucking end of it....else CWT 'might' have some union problems flair up....
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